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the new (and cheap) Xiaomi Note 5 Pro (Whyred) was dropped in October last year after about a year of support. I bought the phone specifically because it was su

by lsh 8y ago

the new (and cheap) Xiaomi Note 5 Pro (Whyred) was dropped in October last year after about a year of support. I bought the phone specifically because it was supported. It sucks, but they depend on volunteers to keep the builds happening. There are plenty of unofficial builds now happening but nobody appears to have stepped up for official status. The phone was originally marketed to India and gets a lot of usage there. I still think Lineage and this hackable phone are fantastic

Arkanosis 8y ago
I bought the same phone… I think it hasn't even been supported for one year, maybe six months, maybe even less. I'm willing to build Lineage myself for it when I find the time for it (the amount of stuff you have to download to build an Android distro is completely crazy), but I'm just wondering… why aren't unofficial builds official? Is there anything that makes it difficult, or do people just not care?
- muks 8y ago
  I can give you a link to download my build if you want (which is a pristine unofficial build with Android security patches till February 5, 2019), but in the end, it depends on whether you'll trust a binary build from some random person: https://mukund.org/tmp/lineage-15.1-20190214-UNOFFICIAL-whyred.zip https://mukund.org/tmp/lineage-15.1-20190214-UNOFFICIAL-whyr... It is neither difficult nor very slow to build it from source, but it can do with a fast internet link (~fiber speeds) as the build process initially clones from several git repositories (but later syncs just fetch the changes which is very fast). Unfortunately not everyone has access to fiber. With fiber, the clone and build ought to complete in about a day depending on your machine's performance. I recommend that you build your own (let the initial build run in the background even if it takes more than a day to finish). If you do it once and use the built OS, you'll not search again.
  - cmroanirgo 8y ago
    > With fiber, the clone and build ought to complete in about a day That's insane btw. Great that you're ok with it, but utterly impractical for me: ADSL is maxed out at 800kbps and due to line noise generally get 80kbps. So I tether, using 4g and 0 to 1 bar of strength. During heavy cloud and rain it drops to hdpsa.
    - muks 8y ago
      I agree with you.
  - Arkanosis 8y ago
    Thanks as lot! But yeah, I'd rather build it myself or at the very least, get a signed binary that's somehow official. I'm a bit reassured by your words about the build, but the hard part for me is the download as I don't have fiber at home: I've already tried once and given up after a few hours. Compiling should be okay as I've some horsepower :) Thanks again :)
muks 8y ago
Same device here (whyred). If you want an "original" build, you can still build an up-to-date Lineage OS with the latest Android security patches from source from their repo. It is very easy to build it on Fedora or Ubuntu and it doesn't take more than a few minutes to do updated builds once you do the first complete build. Follow the build instructions: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred/build https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred/build An additional thing you may have to do (on Fedora at least) is to export LANG=C. You'll also need a vendor tree for whyred from somewhere, like your own phone or from a public repo such as this: https://github.com/Sweeto143/vendor_xiaomi_whyred/tree/oreo https://github.com/Sweeto143/vendor_xiaomi_whyred/tree/oreo (Getting the tree from an existing Lineage OS phone per the build instructions did not work for me.) Note that the latest version of whyred vendor tree for Android Oreo is from last year. I suspect this is because Xiaomi has moved on to Android Pie for whyred. What all this gets for you is a build with the latest Android security patches applied (February 5, 2019 as of today). Good luck. I can report that it builds and works well and it is straightforward to build it (more so for a programmer).
- lsh 8y ago
  thank you, this is helpful

by lsh 8y ago

Arkanosis 8y ago

I bought the same phone… I think it hasn't even been supported for one year, maybe six months, maybe even less. I'm willing to build Lineage myself for it when I find the time for it (the amount of stuff you have to download to build an Android distro is completely crazy), but I'm just wondering… why aren't unofficial builds official? Is there anything that makes it difficult, or do people just not care?

muks 8y ago
I can give you a link to download my build if you want (which is a pristine unofficial build with Android security patches till February 5, 2019), but in the end, it depends on whether you'll trust a binary build from some random person: https://mukund.org/tmp/lineage-15.1-20190214-UNOFFICIAL-whyred.zip https://mukund.org/tmp/lineage-15.1-20190214-UNOFFICIAL-whyr... It is neither difficult nor very slow to build it from source, but it can do with a fast internet link (~fiber speeds) as the build process initially clones from several git repositories (but later syncs just fetch the changes which is very fast). Unfortunately not everyone has access to fiber. With fiber, the clone and build ought to complete in about a day depending on your machine's performance. I recommend that you build your own (let the initial build run in the background even if it takes more than a day to finish). If you do it once and use the built OS, you'll not search again.
- cmroanirgo 8y ago
  > With fiber, the clone and build ought to complete in about a day That's insane btw. Great that you're ok with it, but utterly impractical for me: ADSL is maxed out at 800kbps and due to line noise generally get 80kbps. So I tether, using 4g and 0 to 1 bar of strength. During heavy cloud and rain it drops to hdpsa.
  - muks 8y ago
    I agree with you.
- Arkanosis 8y ago
  Thanks as lot! But yeah, I'd rather build it myself or at the very least, get a signed binary that's somehow official. I'm a bit reassured by your words about the build, but the hard part for me is the download as I don't have fiber at home: I've already tried once and given up after a few hours. Compiling should be okay as I've some horsepower :) Thanks again :)

muks 8y ago

Same device here (whyred). If you want an "original" build, you can still build an up-to-date Lineage OS with the latest Android security patches from source from their repo. It is very easy to build it on Fedora or Ubuntu and it doesn't take more than a few minutes to do updated builds once you do the first complete build. Follow the build instructions: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred/build https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred/build An additional thing you may have to do (on Fedora at least) is to export LANG=C. You'll also need a vendor tree for whyred from somewhere, like your own phone or from a public repo such as this: https://github.com/Sweeto143/vendor_xiaomi_whyred/tree/oreo https://github.com/Sweeto143/vendor_xiaomi_whyred/tree/oreo (Getting the tree from an existing Lineage OS phone per the build instructions did not work for me.) Note that the latest version of whyred vendor tree for Android Oreo is from last year. I suspect this is because Xiaomi has moved on to Android Pie for whyred. What all this gets for you is a build with the latest Android security patches applied (February 5, 2019 as of today). Good luck. I can report that it builds and works well and it is straightforward to build it (more so for a programmer).

lsh 8y ago
thank you, this is helpful